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Also - Have I understood correctly that if I take photos on my mobile (LR) phone and they are synced to my desktop, there is no other way than Lightroom Downloader to move the actual files onto my disk. Is there no way to move them within Lightroom in the same way that all other file management is effected?
Thanks
LR Classic, LR Mobile Android, Mac OS Catalina
By @UrbanObsession
The Lightroom Downloader is designed to be use as a lifeboat for those people who have stopped their subscription and want to download all their images from the cloud. If therefore really shouldn't have any place in a regular day-to-day workflow.
However, I'm not 100% clear on what you are trying to achieve, if you could clarify what you mean by syncing your mobile phone pictures to your desktop? What does "desktop" mean in this context? Lightroom Classic, or Lightroom, or something else? If you are using the LrMobile app on your phone, any pictures you take can be automatically synced to the cloud and from there they can be automatically synced down into LrClassic running on the desktop. You have options in LrC's Preferences to determine where they are stored on the local hard drive, but even if you get that wrong you can still move them to your preferred location using drag and drop within the LrC's Folders Panel. So I'm just not at all clear about why you think you need to be using the Downloader?
I want my images to be on my hard drive and nowhere else. I don't want them to continue syncing with my phone. The only time I want to use the cloud is to effect the automatic sync from my phone to LRCC.
By @UrbanObsession
That's quite a common thing, i.e. removing the phone captures from the cloud after they have downloaded into LrClassic, and it's quite simple. Basically you wait until the images have arrived in LrClassic, and then in Classic select them all and then click on the All Synced Photographs special collection in the Catalog panel. Then right-click on one of the selected photos and select "Remove from All Synced Photographs" in the menu that appears. That will delete the images from the cloud, unsync them, but keeps them in the Classic catalog and on your hard drive. One thing to note, if the images are in a synced collection in Classic, removing them from the All Synced Photographs collection will also remove them from the synced collection (obviously, an unsynced image cannot exist in a synced collection).
Hello,
Will it sync up to know? Or do I have to start over again?
Any tips to get it to finish the lasy 4%?
Thanks
By @defaultew27kpshtbvb
I can't help with the last 4%, but you should be able to cancel and restart and it should pick up from where it left off, i.e. it shouldn't do that first 96% over again.
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